Present Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis

By Richard Terdiman

Book Overview

This book is about memory--about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centuries. Since the French Revolution, memory has been the source of an intense disquiet. Fundamental cultural theories have sought to understand it, and have striven to represent its stresses.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801481325
• ISBN13: 9780801481321
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher